Sunday, 31 January 2016

Killdeer 2. "Broken Wing Act". Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), near Burns, Oregon. These birds forage for food in fields, mudflats and shores, usually by sight.
Their name comes from their frequently heard call. These birds will
frequently use evasive action display ("broken wing act") to distract
predators from their nests. This involves the bird walking away from
its nesting area holding its wing in a position that simulates an
injury. and then flapping around on the ground emitting a distress call.
The predators then think they have easy prey and are attracted to the
seemingly injured bird and away from the nest. If the parent sees that a
potential predator is not following along, it will move closer and get
louder until it gets the attention of the predator.: photo by Nick Perla, 29 June 2010

Black-necked
Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus). A striking black-and-white bird with very
long, thin legs, the Black-necked Stilt is found along the edges of open
water, in this case near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney
County, Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 25 May 2008

Black-necked
Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus). A striking black-and-white bird with very
long, thin legs, the Black-necked Stilt is found along the edges of open
water, in this case near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney
County, Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 25 May 2008

Black-necked
Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), feeding in flooded agricultural fields
several miles north of Malheur National Willdlife Refuge, Harney County,
Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 1 June 2008

Black-necked
Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), feeding in flooded agricultural fields
several miles north of Malheur National Willdlife Refuge, Harney County,
Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 1 June 2008

Black-necked
Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), feeding in flooded agricultural fields
several miles north of Malheur National Willdlife Refuge, Harney County,
Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 1 June 2008

American Avocet, near Burns, Oregon: photo by Big Dipper 2, 10 July 2011

All
they want is peace...a piece of Oregon, a piece of Idaho, a piece of
Montana, a piece of Arizona, a piece of Wyoming! #Oregonstandoff: tweet via Return Our Refuge @Return Our Refuge 30 January 2016

Saturday, 30 January 2016

Linda Gainer, owner of The Narrows, a restaurant and tavern just outside
the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said she was criticized for
serving everyone involved in the standoff, from the F.B.I. to the
protesters: photo by
Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 29 January 2016

Not under pressure of a private grief,Oh for but a few years yet of useful

Life, for all's complete once your rat Race is run, that's how things go, no one prescribes to

Or gets to presume to order lifeAround as though it were a sort of waitress race

Sister Life has better things to do than waitAround in the wings for the part

Mason's Cafe: truck driver, sailor and waitress at highway coffee shop on US 90 in Southern Louisiana: photo by John Vachon, 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Waves crash over the sea wall in Blackpool, as Storm Gertrude is
sweeping the country with winds of more than 90mph, leaving thousands of
homes without power, buildings damaged and transport disrupted: photo by Peter Byrne/PA, 29 January 2016

Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed
Abdul Qadir Jilani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Thousands of
devotees thronged to the shrine, where the Kashmiri Muslim head priest
displayed the relics of the Sufi Saint: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 29 January 2016

A fishing boat is seen and the city skyline is covered by a smoggy haze in Mumbai: photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP, 29 January 2016

Billy Hunter, a volunteer for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders, holds a door open while waiting for Sanders to arrive at
a campaign rally in Fairfield, Iowa: photo by Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters, 29 January 2016

Only by Blood and Suffering: Regaining Lost Freedom: A Novel by Lavoy Finicum, 2015 (cover): image via Talking Points Memo, 11 January 2016

"My AR was cradled in my left arm. The chamber was
charged and I clicked off the safety. Ann Rafferty [a mayor] was still
talking as I walked out onto the floor. I walked towards the table and
Ann started stumbling over her train of speech as she as she watched me
come. Zackary Williams [a DHS officer] was at the end of the table and I
passed to the right side. I did not stop until I had circled behind
Zackary. This way my rifle barrel was always pointed in his general
direction."

-- from LaVoy Finicum: Only by Blood and Suffering: Freedom Regained (2015)

Lavoy Finicum with long gun and tarp, settling in at the Refuge: image via Talking Points Memo, 11 January 2016

A construction worker stands in front of a piece of street art
portraying prospective U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, in east
London: photo by Andrew Winning/Reuters, 28 January 2016

Democratic
presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets
supporters during a “get out the caucus” event at the Adel
Family Fun Center in Adel, Iowa. With less than a week to go before the
Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton is campaigning throughout Iowa: photo by Justin Sullivan via FT Photo Diary, 28 January 2016

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Vehicles carry coffins draped with Iraqi flags and containing bodies
found in a mass grave in Anbar province. Iraqi authorities have
uncovered the mass grave in Ramadi containing at least 40 bodies,
including women and children, apparently killed by Islamic State
insurgents when they seized the city in May: photo by Reuters, 28 January 2016

An Afghan woman walks past a mural that also reads “seeking knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim man and woman” in Herat: photo by Aref Karimi/AFP, 28 January 2016

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An Afghan woman walks past a mural that also reads “seeking knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim man and woman” in Herat: photo by Aref Karimi/AFP, 28 January 2016

GAZA - The shadows of Bedouin children are sen behind a fence at their encampment in Khan Yunis By MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 20 January 2016

Models of First Order's Stormtrooper Battle Buddy from Star Wars: The Force Awakens are displayed in a shop in in Shanghai, China: photo by Reuters, 19 January 2016

A monkey holds a dice during a performance ahead of the Chinese New
Year of the Monkey which falls on February 8, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang
province: photo by China Daily/Reuters, 28 January 2016

A
television truck and a reporter in a car sit along Highway 78 located
approximately 4 miles from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters near
Burns, Oregon on January 27, 2016. The
leaders of the Bundy Militia occupation were arrested, one of them shot dead, during a
traffic stop. There are still many occupants digging in at the federal
wildlife refuge despite the heavy police presence surrounding them. All
roads surrounding the facility have been closed and heavily armed by Law
Enforcement Agencies: photo by Rob Kerr / AFP, 27 January 2016

Law enforcement personnel block an access road to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuges: photo by Thomas Boyd/ Associated Press, 27 January 2016

All your base are belong to us

A model for the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier at the Paris Haute Couture Week Spring/Summer 2016: photo by Landon Nordeman for The New York Times, 27 January 2016

Children
of migrants waiting in frigid weather near the Serbian-Croatian border,
hoping to cross with their parents into Croatia: photo by Milos Bicanski / The New York Times, 26 January 2016

A
Greek man grabbed a bag of tangerines as farmers handed out free
produce in Athens to protest government plans to overhaul the pension
system: photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters, 27 January 2016

Ultra-Orthodox
Jews from the Belz Hasidic dynasty grabbed oranges as they celebrated
the feast of Tu Bishvat, or New Year for Trees, in Jerusalem: photo by Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency, 25 January 2016

Devotees offer prayers as they stand on the bank of the Hanumante
River during a month-long Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 27 January 2016

Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016
Republican presidential candidate, reacts to a protester during an event
in Iowa City, Iowa: photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg, 27 January 2016

The End of the Line

Blood on the Moon (1948): photo by hytam2, 1 April 2014

My prime of youth is but a froste of cares:

My feaste of joy, is but a dishe of payne:

My cropp of corne, is but a field of tares:

And all my good is but vaine hope of gaine:

The daye is gone, and yet I sawe no sonn:

And nowe I live, and nowe my life is donn.

The springe is paste, and yet it hath not sprong,

The fruite is deade, and yet the leaves are greene

My youth is gone, and yet I am but yonge

I sawe the woorld, and yet I was not seene

My threed is cutt, and yet it is not sponn,

And nowe I lyve, and nowe my life is donn.

I saught my death, and founde it in my womb,

I lookt for life, and sawe it was a shade.

I trode the earth, and knewe it was my Tombe

And nowe I die, and nowe I am but made

The glasse is full, and nowe the glass is rune

And nowe I live, and nowe my life is donn.

Chidiock Tichborne (c. 1558-20 September 1586): Tychbornes Elegie, written with his owne hand in the Tower before his Execution (1586)